We all loved DEATH WORM. DEATH WORM! It’s one of the first indie games we ever posted about on RPS, and mentioning its hallowed name remains the only known way to make Jim Rossignol use an exclamation mark.

Free browser game Worm Food is not DEATH WORM 2.0, nor is it officially related to DEATH WORM, but it is a lot like it. Probably too much like it, to be honest. Still: death worms.
It’s more visually elaborate (i.e. da grafficks is betta) and by including a starvation system rather than simply a combo score, it’s perhaps a little more polished and focused – though in some ways that’s to its detriment. DEATH WORM’s simple purity was its all.

Still, you’re a giant worm. You eat stuff. This involves acceleration, tunnelling and trying not to starve to death. Vis a vis, DEATH WORM! (But not).

How interesting! Worm Food takes an awesome game and somehow manages to make it unfun!

Stupid ‘kill every villager within time limit’ mechanic turns a pleasing ‘wreak havoc!’ game into a matter of flailing wildly around with the bad control scheme, trying to get that one last guy hanging on a rope bridge in the middle of nowhere.

Took long enough.
I’m happy that gaming blogs have finally caught onto nitrome’s awesome.
though I still have that strange feeling like someone discovered a band you like.
I’m happy for them, but it doesn’t seem so… private. anymore.

I’ve always hated Nitrome. They so clearly are more interested in trying to make neat pixel art than making fun games. The games are rarely all that creative, and the gameplay is almost always kind of weak.

I lost once on the second level, and realised why – I was working my way up. The level is hugely vertical. You’re expected to tunnel right up to the top, and then dive the whole length of the mountain to catch everyone you can on the way down.

My son used to play Death Worm a lot. He was 4 at the time, and he loved it. Right up until the time he had a nightmare about being eaten by the worm, and from then on he won’t watch anything to do with anything involving giant worms. He’s 6 now and he still occasionally asks me “Dad….death worms aren’t real, right?”

He nearly crapped his pants when he was watching me play Lost Planet and one of those giant worms burst out from the ice.

My wife of two years is from northern China, unfortunately within that time we have not been able to travel to china to visit and celebrate with her family. We had planned on going next summer. “Had” because now that this game has enlightened me to the horrors brooding only meters beneath that scenic Chinese landscape, I’m never setting foot there. Never. Fuck that shit.